Pence told reporters in Jakarta that it was a "strategic partnership" between the USA and ASEAN. The summit and related meetings are scheduled to take place November 10 through 14. Trump got off on the wrong foot. The East Asia Summit groups 18 countries including Asean member states, the US, Russia and China. China claims most of the flashpoint South China Sea, but has overlapping claims with a number of Southeast Asian countries, including Vietnam.

Schiff and the new senior Republican on the committee, Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX), sent out letters asking key Obama administration officials and senior intelligence officials to testify before the committee. An attorney for Yates alleged that the Justice Department was guidance on what Yates could say about conversations she had with Trump - conversations the department indicated could be covered by executive privilege, then deferred to the White House, according to published correspondance.

President Trump tweeted this morning that the Paris attack that left one police officer dead and two others wounded "will have a big effect" on the upcoming French presidential election . Macron, a 39-year-old moderate whom other candidates have portrayed as too inexperienced to protect France against the terror threat, warned against any attempts to use the attack for political gain.

Tax Day demonstrators gather on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on April 15, 2017 in Washington , D.C. Nearly all major presidential candidates since the 1970s have released their tax returns, but Trump did not do so, saying he would when his audit ended.

Some analysts estimate that with such radical proposals, it would be very hard for Le Pen to get majority support of voters, besides that despite her efforts to update the NF, a part of the French keeps being associated to the Party with the negation to Republic and democratic principles.

Pot shops for recreational marijuana have been open for business in Colorado and Washington since 2014, and in OR since 2015. On Apr. 12, the Colorado State Senate approved SB 17-192 , a bill that would allow cannabis businesses to reclassify recreational marijuana as medical marijuana by transferring rec products to a med licensee "based on a business need due to a change in local, state or federal law , or enforcement policy".

Russia, Syria and Iran strongly warned the United States Friday against launching new strikes on Syria and called for an worldwide probe into last week's chemical attack there. attacked in retaliation. "We fully expect the President will deliver to Congress an AUMF that he wants us to debate and vote on", McGovern said. Speaking following the meetings, Mr Lavrov ruled out withdrawing his support for Syrian leader Assad, saying that "ousting a particular personality is not on our agenda".

A White House foreign policy adviser traveling with Pence said no USA response to the missile launch was expected because there was no need for the U.S.to reinforce the failure. "If they infringe on the DPRK's sovereignty and dignity even a bit, its army will launch merciless ultra-precision strikes from ground, air, sea and underwater", North Korea said through its state-run news source.

All along, the goal has been to induce North Korea to open up to the outside world and roll back its nuclear and missile programs. The North casts the United States as the aggressor. Even though the Pentagon said the vessels are going there to take part in a routine military exercise, everybody knows the United States naval reinforcements have been sent to the area to send a message to Pyongyang.

As a presidential candidate, Trump often appeared to flirt with the far right as he railed against "radical Islamic terrorism". "In your nation as in mine, religion unifies, it doesn't divide", he added. courts. He reaffirmed US support for the freedom of navigation and trade though the South China Sea. Pence will emphasize the long-term partnership between the two nations on defense and the economy, Reuters reported.

She added, "I think generally, and in very general terms indeed, if anyone is responsible, then it is those in power at the time, not France as such. That is why Marine Le Pen denounced the "so-called Gaullists" for "instrumentalizing" history. "Going there" in the first place was probably a big mistake for the presidential candidate, and may or may not have ramifications on election day, because the National Front has a legacy of anti-Semitism from its founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a ...

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California called that an "appalling threat". Several major insurers, including Humana and Aetna, have announced plans to exit some state exchanges in 2018. In response, the Obama administration tightened some of these requirements past year and announced it would run a pilot program starting this summer to randomly select half of all special enrollment applicants for verification review , holding up the applicant's insurance coverage until they ...